diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 4e3b4d86..25732f5d 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ repos:
 
       - id: trailing-whitespace
         description: 'Trim trailing whitespace.'
+        exclude: CHANGELOG.md
 
       - id: check-docstring-first
         description: 'Check a common error of defining a docstring after code.'
diff --git a/src/gitingest/output_formatter.py b/src/gitingest/output_formatter.py
index 8a5b4135..2a9957b2 100644
--- a/src/gitingest/output_formatter.py
+++ b/src/gitingest/output_formatter.py
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import ssl
+import warnings
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
+import requests.exceptions
 import tiktoken
 
 from gitingest.schemas import FileSystemNode, FileSystemNodeType
@@ -190,7 +193,11 @@ def _format_token_count(text: str) -> str | None:
         encoding = tiktoken.get_encoding("o200k_base")  # gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini
         total_tokens = len(encoding.encode(text, disallowed_special=()))
     except (ValueError, UnicodeEncodeError) as exc:
-        print(exc)
+        warnings.warn(f"Failed to estimate token size: {exc}", RuntimeWarning, stacklevel=3)
+        return None
+    except (requests.exceptions.RequestException, ssl.SSLError) as exc:
+        # If network errors, skip token count estimation instead of erroring out
+        warnings.warn(f"Failed to download tiktoken model: {exc}", RuntimeWarning, stacklevel=3)
         return None
 
     for threshold, suffix in _TOKEN_THRESHOLDS: